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We cook – a lot. Turns out we both like to play around in the kitchen and we frequently find or create some really tasty stuff. The successes (and failures, assuming they’re spectacular enough) will land here.

This is a vegetarian Chili recipe that I’ve been perfecting for years. It’s really tasty, stupid healthy and will definitely warm you up on a cold day. Best served with a pan of cornbread – the non-sweetened kind!

My preferred cornbread recipe is here, though I add 1/4 shredded cheddar cheese and a diced jalapeno for interest.

Today’s Dirty Deed: The Pumpkin Spice FrankenPancake!

What is a FrankenPancake, you might ask? Well, it’s a mashup of a couple different recipes that ultimately provided one of the tastier pancakes that Laura and I have eaten – ever!

I started with a half a can of leftover pumpkin mix that Laura used to make me some Pumpkin Cinnamon Rolls for my birthday (yum! give them a try), a desire for pancakes and, more specifically, a desire for buttermilk pancakes. The interwebs failed us on a recipe for all of the above, but I figured “what the hell:” we have a buttermilk pancake recipe from The Joy of Cooking that is known to be good and we also have a good recipe for pumpkin spice waffles from Epicurious, so how hard could it be to mash them up. The answer: dead simple!

Ingredients
Dry

1 1/2 cups All Purpose flour

3 tablespoons brown sugar

2 teaspoons baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon

1/2 teaspoon ground ginger

1/4 teaspoon ground cloves

Wet

1 1/2 cups buttermilk

3 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted

2 large eggs

1/2 teaspoon vanilla

1/2 can pumpkin

Instructions

Combine dry ingredients in a large bowl and make sure to break up any lumps of brown sugar

Whisk wet ingredients together in a second bowl

Pour wet ingredients into dry ingredients and gently whisk them together, mixing until just combined

Spoon 1/3 cup of mix onto griddle for each pancake and cook as normal for pancakes